Foundation models are AI systems trained on vast amounts of data — often trillions of individual data points — and they are capable of learning new ways of modeling information and performing a range ...

The Science of Team Science is a new interdisciplinary field that empirically examines the processes by which large and small scientific teams, research centers, and institutes organize, communicate, ...

Staff supporting Colorado policymakers and researchers explored how science can strengthen resilience across the state’s ...

Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. Legionella occur naturally in water from many ...

This project will examine the use of analytical methods to assess the risks of nuclear terrorism and nuclear war and the role such approaches may play in U.S. security strategy. The National Academies ...

Vitamin A does not prevent measles. The most effective way to prevent measles is through vaccination. Vitamin A supplements are a tool in reducing complications from measles, but they will not prevent ...

An international commission has been convened by the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.K.’s Royal Society, with the participation of academies of ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Historic mining activities near Coeur d’Alene Lake in Northern Idaho have contaminated millions of tons of lake sediments with metals. Since enacting environmental regulations in the mid-1970s, metal ...

This project focuses on the causes of the Fukushima Daiichi accident and safety-related lessons learned for improving nuclear plant systems, operations, and regulations exclusive of spent fuel storage ...

The Institute of Medicine, through its Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), as part of the continuing activity to develop Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for nutrients, undertook an 18-month study to ...